A/N: Another small chappy, but I promise to make the next one longer. I didn't get any reviews for the first chapter, so please, please, please! Review! BTW I think I should take this time to mention that I own none of the characters and the brilliance behind them; that all belongs to the wonderful J.K. Rowling.
Of Lions and Snakes
Chapter Two
The first week of school consisted mostly of classes and homework. Dean had become a nuisance, always distracting her in the common room, so she spent most of her evenings hidden away in the library.
About mid-week, Ginny had sat in the back of the library, feverishly studying defensive curses. It was about eight o'clock and Ginny had already been studying for over an hour. She had chosen to take a desk beside the window, and now her attention had wandered to the grounds below her.
It was fairly dark already, but the dim twilight permitted her to see just well enough. Over by Hagrid's hut, she could see a few garden gnomes goofing off on the lawn. One particularly feisty looking gnome charged at a rather scared looking gnome, knocking him over. They rolled around on the lawn while a few other gnomes pointed and laughed.
The situation had put a lively smile on Ginny Weasley's face, but this faded as something else outside caught her attention. She stood up and neared the window to get a better look at what she thought she saw.
Even though it was fairly dark and getting darker every moment, she could clearly make out what she was seeing; someone had just come out of the dark forest and was slinking up towards the castle doors, and that person, she could now tell clearly, was Draco Malfoy.
She frowned and watched as he strode through the grass and around the corner. She could think of no good reason why Malfoy would be out on the grounds this late at night, let alone in the dark forest. She considered going back to the common to tell Ron, Harry and Hermione what she had witnessed, but then, she knew, they would go investigate and leave her behind. No, she would not tell the others, but she would find out, one way or another, what Draco Malfoy was up to.